Elementary Grades

Grade 4

Through activity-driven lessons based on markable maps and globes and an atlas that teaches students how to use an atlas, students master geography concepts, skills, and content, then apply those skills to the U.S. regions. Available with Spanish resources.
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This full-color atlas helps students become geographically savvy. Map elements are illustrated and explained, while graphs and photographs illustrate the concepts in a different way. Then students apply their new skills and concepts to U.S. regions. Also available in Spanish.
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Designed for students just becoming ready for the main details of geographic information, these maps focus on world and U.S. political divisions by using contrasting colors to make states and countries easy to see, while shaded relief shows relationships between physical and political geography.
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Designed for students just becoming ready for the main details of geographic information, this globe uses color to focus on world and U.S. political divisions, while shaded 3-D raised relief lets students uncover relationships between physical and political geography.
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Equip students to investigate the main biomes of the U.S. and the world. While shaded relief plainly reveals mountainous areas, colors classify terrain as forest, grassland, desert, or alpine. The maps also show capital and major cities as well as national and state boundary lines.
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Focuses on Earth's environments: its forest, grassland, desert, and alpine terrain regimes. The globe also shows capital and major cities as well as national and state boundary lines, while shaded 3-D raised relief puts students in touch with the world’s mountainous areas.
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Make all of Nystrom’s elementary maps, globes, atlases, and activity sets digital and available to teachers and students both at home and in school. Nystrom’s carefully spiraled K–5 geography resources allow teachers to support and challenge every student at just the right level.
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